The fact that this is not dependent on a PC is its potential strength.
The average consumer would much rather play games on a machine that functions as easily and reliably as a game console, and plays on the TV, a familiar, comfortable venue. We are all familiar with the instability of Windows, and the amount of work it takes for many games to run properly on a PC.
This offers a way to (supposedly) get the performance of a Pentium II running at 500-1000 MHz, and it is embedded in a machine that the consumer is buying primarily to play movies. It's literally a freebie from his perspective...sure beats a $3000 computer and a $200 3D card!
Scares the hell out of me, if I am 3DFX.
Worse, it supposedly looked good at E3, so it is not pure vaporware. Chip, did you see this?
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